{"id":6298,"date":"2010-04-09T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=6298"},"modified":"2010-04-09T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:15:01","slug":"fri-update-justice-retiring-spirit-of-memphis-rally-bike-to-work-day-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/09\/fri-update-justice-retiring-spirit-of-memphis-rally-bike-to-work-day-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri update: Justice retiring, Spirit of Memphis rally, Bike to Work day, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you voted for Google Fiber and an inner-city skate park for Memphis today?<\/strong> Use the links at the top of my blog’s right sidebar.<\/p>\n

In the news: One of the greatest Supreme Court Justices of modern times, John Paul Stevens, is retiring. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Downtown Memphis is participating in national Bike to Work Day Friday, May 21. Those who live and work Downtown are invited to rediscover the bike as a means of transportation on that day. More details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A helicopter will be placing AC units on the top of One Commerce Square tomorrow at 7 AM. So I guess I can forget about sleeping late on a Saturday. Well, either that or I need to get so wasted tonight that I don’t even hear the helicopter, which is what happened the last time it showed up.<\/p>\n

After work tonight I’m attending the Spirit of Memphis pep rally in Handy Park from 5:30 to 7. Speeches by Roby Williams and Kevin Kane, footage of old and new Beale, and a ceremony inducting R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough onto Beale’s Brass Note Walk of Fame. Come out and celebrate Memphis!<\/p>\n

After that I gotta head to the Saucer for one beer… I’ve got to keep checking in, now that I know Venus is trying to steal the mayorship from me on Foursquare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After that I’m heading to South Main for a party in friends’ parking lot. They told me about it last week. “Yeah we’re going to have a big cookout and maybe even live music,” they said. “You should come down.”<\/p>\n

“Sounds like fun, I may have to swing by,” I thought.<\/p>\n

“We’re cooking a bunch of wings,” they told me. “We have a team in Hot Wing Fest on the 17th, and we need to get feedback on wing recipes.”<\/p>\n

“Sounds good, maybe I’ll head down to South Main,” I thought. (I also thought, “Free food? Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up.”)<\/p>\n

Then they told me, “We’re going to have PBR. 24 ounce tallboys from the cash & carry.”<\/p>\n

I thought, “PBR TALLBOYS? I’M THERE!!!!”<\/p>\n

So that’s the plan for the evening. Probably an additional stop after the cookout… not sure where.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"